Job Description

Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!

Responsibilities:

• HSE Ownership: You take responsibility for Health, Safety & Environment at a manufacturing site with around 100 employees, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and effective preventive measures.

• Safety Culture: Together with managers and employees, you drive risk assessments, root cause analyses and accident prevention initiatives while strengthening a proactive safety culture on the shopfloor.

• Quality Management: You further develop the quality management system from a strategic perspective, enhance sustainable quality standards and support the team in complaint and quality-related topics.

• Leadership: You lead and develop the QHSE team, foster collaboration and create an environment built on accountability, teamwork and safety awareness.

• Audits & Compliance: You manage internal audits and actively support external audits and customer visits in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders.

• Site Leadership: As part of the site management team, you contribute to operational and strategic decisions and act as a role model for ownership, leadership and safety culture.

Qualifications:

• Experience: You bring several years of experience in an HSE-focused role within an industrial manufacturing environment and ideally have previous leadership experience.

• Qualification: You hold a degree in engineering, HSE, environmental management, quality management or a comparable qualification.

• Expertise: You have solid knowledge in occupational health & safety, health and environmental management – ideally within a manufacturing environment.

• Hands-on Approach: You enjoy working closely with people on the shopfloor and know how to develop practical solutions together with operational teams.

• Working Style: Strong analytical skills, a structured approach to audits, risk management and change processes, combined with a pragmatic mindset, define your way of working.

• Languages: You communicate fluently in German and confidently in English (minimum B2 level) and build trust through clarity, visibility and positive leadership.

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The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Freudenberg Performance Materials GmbH & Co. KG